The Naval Sea Systems Command (NavSea) last Friday awarded 49 vendors positions on a potential $982.1 million contract to provide support to the Navy’s current and future unmanned surface vehicle (USV) systems and subsystems.
The 49 awardees include 31 small businesses, NavSea said. In total, 55 offers were received for the contract, which has a base period running through February 2025 and a five-year option ordering period.
The USV Family of Systems includes platforms and systems that will make up the Navy’s future USV fleet and will include the Mine Countermeasures USV and Minehunting USV, experimentation platforms such as Sea Hunter, and medium and large USVs that will be part of the Future Surface Combatant Force concept, NavSea said. It also said that “Systems will include the Unmanned Influence Sweep System, surface towed sonar systems, and mine neutralizing system that is still under development, along with their related subsystems and delivery systems.”
The Navy will compete task and delivery orders through the indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract in the functional areas of payloads, non-payload sensors, mission support systems, autonomy and vehicle control systems, ashore and host platform elements, and logistics and sustainment. The contract will be the primary means to acquire “supplies and services used to design, develop, fabricate, prototype, integrate, test, maintain, and support multiple variants of USVs and subsystems,” NavSea said.
Some of the awardees include Anduril Industries, Applied Research Associates, AT&T Corp. [T], Autonodyne LLC, Bollinger Shipyards, CACI International [CACI], Carnegie Robotics LLC, Fairbanks Morse, Teledyne FLIR Surveillance [TDY], General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Honeywell [HON], Marinette Marine Corp., Microsoft [MSFT], Saab Inc., and SES Government Solutions.